The Perkins library. A catalogue of the very valuable and important library formed by the late Henry Perkins, esq., at the beginning of the present century, and comprising many splendid illuminated manuscripts of the highest class, a remarkable collection of ancient Bibles, examples of printing on vellum of the greates beauty and rarity, and other most choice specimens of early typography, the four folio editions of Shakespeare, numerous valuable county histories, and fine books in all classes of literature, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Gadsden, Ellis and Co., in the great library at Hanworth Park, on Tuesday, June 3rd [1873] and three following days. At one o'clock precisely.

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